Short tip: Find out HP Managepent Processor IP address

Recently I needed access to a HP Management Processor (MP) without knowing the appropriate IP address.

A possibility is to utilize a serial connection to the MP – but this is kinda complicated if you don’t have any physical system access.

A smarter approach is to find out the IP address using the running operating system (HP-UX). For this, you will need to have the additional software product SFM-CORE (HPUX System Fault Management) installed. The following command checks whether the product is installed: